OS: RH 3.5 DB: 10.1.0.3 Media software: Veritas Netbackup 5.1 I'm in the process of documenting our DR procedure. Our testing includes recovering from disk and tape. So far recovering from disk has been relatively painless. In contrast, recovering from tape has proven to be less successful. Right now I can't get past the steps to restore the spfile to pfile from autobackup. Has anyone run across this same problem when restoring the spfile to pfile from autobackup from tape? Listed below is the backup and restore commands. Backup: CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE sbt BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE sbt_tape TO 'cf_%F'; CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 14 DAYS; run { allocate channel t1 type 'SBT_TAPE' parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so,ENV=(NB_ORA_SCHED=ORACLE _DB,NB_ORA_CLIENT=jivrac1,NB_ORA_CLASS=OLS3_WIU_ORACLE)'; allocate channel t2 type 'SBT_TAPE' parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so,ENV=(NB_ORA_SCHED=ORACLE _DB,NB_ORA_CLIENT=jivrac1,NB_ORA_CLASS=OLS3_WIU_ORACLE)'; allocate channel t3 type 'SBT_TAPE' parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so,ENV=(NB_ORA_SCHED=ORACLE _DB,NB_ORA_CLIENT=jivrac1,NB_ORA_CLASS=OLS3_WIU_ORACLE)'; allocate channel t4 type 'SBT_TAPE' parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so,ENV=(NB_ORA_SCHED=ORACLE _DB,NB_ORA_CLIENT=jivrac1,NB_ORA_CLASS=OLS3_WIU_ORACLE)'; backup database PLUS ARCHIVELOG; release channel t1; release channel t2; release channel t3; release channel t4; } Restore: [oracle@wiuqjivrac01 dbs]$ export ORACLE_SID=WIUQD3 [oracle@wiuqjivrac01 dbs]$ rman nocatalog target / Recovery Manager: Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production Copyright (c) 1995, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved. connected to target database (not started) RMAN> set dbid 123456789 executing command: SET DBID RMAN> startup nomount; startup failed: ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters LRM-00109: could not open parameter file '/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1/dbs/initWIUQD3.ora' trying to start the Oracle instance without parameter files ... Oracle instance started Total System Global Area 79691776 bytes Fixed Size 777792 bytes Variable Size 70001088 bytes Database Buffers 8388608 bytes Redo Buffers 524288 bytes RMAN>run {allocate channel t1 type 'SBT_TAPE' parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so,ENV=(NB_ORA_SCHED=ORACLE _DB,NB_ORA_CLIENT=jivrac1,NB_ORA_CLASS=QAOLS_ORACLE)'; restore spfile to pfile '/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1/dbs/initWIUQD3.ora' from autobackup maxdays=2; } allocated channel: t1 channel t1: sid=26 devtype=SBT_TAPE channel t1: VERITAS NetBackup for Oracle - Release 5.1 (2004043014) Starting restore at 01-NOV-05 channel t1: looking for autobackup on day: 20051101 channel t1: looking for autobackup on day: 20051031 channel t1: no autobackup in 2 days found Thanks, Mark Moynahan